TICKETS TO INAUGURAL CBS SPORTS CLASSIC ON SALE FRIDAY

Doubleheader featuring North Carolina-Ohio State, UCLA-Kentucky scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 20 at the United Center in Chicago

Tickets to the 2014 CBS Sports Classic, a college basketball doubleheader featuring perennial powers Kentucky, Ohio State and UCLA, will go on sale Friday, Oct. 3, at 10 a.m. CST. The doubleheader will take place on Saturday, Dec. 20, at the United Center in Chicago, starting at Noon, CT with North Carolina taking on Ohio State followed by UCLA facing Kentucky at 2:30 p.m., CT.

Tickets to the CBS Sports Classic guarantee admission to both contests and can be purchased through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com, by calling Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or by visiting the United Center Box Office.

CBS Sports will televise the games nationally and stream them exclusively on CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android.

Together, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio State and UCLA have won 25 NCAA Championships and made 168 NCAA Tournament appearances. Since 2006, each team has appeared in at least two Final Fours, while each of the four has played in at least one national championship game. They are among college basketball’s all-time winningest programs, combining for more than 7,500 victories.

The 2014 CBS Sports Classic marks the first of a three-year rotation featuring four of the nation’s top programs in an early-season showcase. The 2015 event will take place on Saturday, Dec. 19, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., while the 2016 doubleheader will be held in Las Vegas.